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If you look at it very very loosely, many major religions are reaching toward the same general concepts and have enough similarities to suggest a consensus that there's a "something" up there.
We probably all have an imperfect idea of what that "something" is, but there are enough similarities (or echos of the same ideas) across many religions to suggest they're looking at the same indivisible thing and interpreting it differently.
That something you're referring to is just fear. Fear of nothingness fear of death fear of the unknown etc... Fear of this being it. Fear of the end. That's all it boils down to. Thus they have to create something to answer that fear. But it's not like there's a universal truth they're all circling around. They're all just creating something to address that fear.
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." Proverbs 9:10
Okay cool.
OP asked for reasons, and I gave one of mine. I didn't intend or expect it to be convincing to anyone. If I wanted to give a formal argument for the existence of a higher power I would, but that's not the point of this thread.
This was a thread for believers. Let them have this one.
And if they had expressed a personal belief I probably wouldn't have even responded. However they talked about a general phenomenon.
This is my very loose, shower thought level description of my personal belief.